Letter to the Editor: Guerrilla politics will decide next election

The last several weeks were unpleasant for conservatives. When you watch your fundamental principles castigated in the press and in public, it tends to dampen hopes.

No one could believe that borrowing nearly 50 percent of the money you spend is a healthy policy. Some might contend that it is noble for 70 percent of the people to sacrifice the quality of their health care for the good of the other 30 percent and to pay for the health care of the other 30 percent, but nobody could believe that is how Obamacare was sold to the American people.

Nobody can think that statements made back then are truth today.

Why, then, is this the losing side? The influence of the media? The current culture of me, me, me? Maybe it's just that ideas take time to ripen. Maybe Ted Cruz will be president in 20 years. Elections are won in the middle.

It won't be MSNBC or Fox fans who decide the next election. It will be the uninformed apathetic "American Idol" fan who gets his news from John Stewart and Letterman. The middle 30 percent.

So you have a choice. You can stand on the sidelines and wave your flag. Or you can take a lesson from the progressives. Enlarge your tent. Don't shun a candidate because he is more or less pragmatic than you. Embrace incrementalism. Take what you can get when you can get it. This is not a war for the high road. This is guerrilla politics, Chicago-style politics.

Logan Dysart

Lafayette

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Letter to the Editor: Guerrilla politics will decide next election

The last several weeks were unpleasant for conservatives. When you watch your fundamental principles castigated in the press and in public, it tends to dampen hopes.